The 2018 General Meeting of World Sailing will take place in Sarasota FL from October 27 to November 4. Not only the very disputed proposals for Olympic events as from 2024 (Paris/Marseille) - elimination of the Laser, Finn, 470, RS:X Windsurfer, etc - will be decided, but also some general questions about Management and the Financial Situation of the World Federation - excessive Adminstration, too high running costs, commericialisation, not enough sponsors, i.e. a huge deficit - will be debated.
While World Sailing sees "everything under control" - here the September Presidential Report of President Kim Anderson DEN - a group of important personalities has opened on a number of problems, that have been covered in details in Sailing Media such as in an critical article in the English Sailweb.